Goostrey

Sunday 11 June 4.5 miles

Carol, Hilary, Tracey, Jane and Donna

A very hot day.

We parked at The Crown pub, put on our boots and went left out of the carpark towards the church. As we walked passed the road to the school there was a sign for an art exhibition.

We turned left down Church Bank and crossed the stream at the bottom of the hill. Then we turned left into a driveway with a footpath sign to ‘The Bongs’ and Mill Lane. We passed to the right of the house,It always seems strange walking so close to someone's house. Then we followed a path dropping into the woodland and across a footbridge, along the wooded valley   to joined Mill Lane near a bridge over the stream.  

Turning right we followed the road as it wound left pased Barnshaw Bank Farm. After 500 metres passed Meadow Bank Farm, then bear right at the end of the drive to Winterbottom Farm. 

We turned left, off the track into the woods and on a footpath signposted to Galey Wood and Appleton’s Lane. We crossed a footbridge between ponds. At the end of the wood, we crossed another footbridge into a field and then into Galey Wood.. At a junction of paths, we turned left past a pond, signposted to Appleton’s Lane and Peover Superior.

The path had a few kissing gates and continued along the edge of a couple of fields before descended to a footbridge and then we climbed the far bank to meet Appleton’s Lane. We turned right along a path, it was signposted to Jodrell Bank. This hedged way led to a road after a little under half a mile. We turned right here, and kept right at the junction with Red Lane.

After half a mile, we turned left into Cross Lane. At a crossroads we went straight ahead, then turned right at the triangular,junction. We took a left at Blackden Firs, past semi-detached houses, and kept right at the fork at the entrance to Yew Tree Farm. We descended to cross a stream and we continued along the track.

Then we followed the path to Blackden Hall Farm, and turned right between brick barns  to emerge in front of a half-timbered farmhouse. We headed left of the house to the driveway and then to Dark Valley Dingle, before continuing to the road on the outskirts of Goostrey. We turned right past the Red Lion pub and passed between Church Cottages and the church to return to the Crown. 

We were pleased to get our boots off and then we went to see the art exhibition,

Bidlea for icecream - 2 blackcurrant and liquorice, 2 honeycomb and 1 sour cherry. Fortunately we had finished our icecreams when there were spots of rain.